food, crochet, merriment
Ok, this is my LEAST favorite thing about roadtrips….
having to say good-bye to a big chunk of my heart.
Ooooh, I’m going to miss this sweet guy…
and his family….SO, so much.
The cousins will miss each other too. It was just all so dang FUN!!
It’s so strange to drive away from these guys who just lived down the road a few months ago. Kind of awful, actually. Feels like we should all be going “home” together.
Deep breaths. Deep breaths.
Good-bye sweet family—I love you!!
We woke up to a glorious, HUGE breakfast that Dane made while we were all still sleeping. This guy is awesome.
Next, sacrament meeting with the families.
And, no, I probably shouldn’t be taking pictures during the prayer. But tell me this little guys isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen.
I couldn’t help myself.
Dane taught the Gospel Doctrine class…
and even had the missionaries help.
He is such a good teacher…and SO handsome!
Afterwards the kids came back from their classes and we got ready to go home.
The ladies made us another lovely feast.
Merrick chose to postpone his “birthday” cake until we came to visit, so we gave him our presents too and had a mini birthday party for him.
Then we headed back to church for the whole reason that we came to Arkansas…
Merrick turned eight…
and today was his baptism day!!
So proud of this sweet boy and his family.
Josh did the tech stuff so the folks back home could tune in.
April and Lily…
were in charge of the music.
The Bishop spoke.
I spoke too, but there is no physical evidence. Thank goodness.
What a wonderful day. Congratulations Merrick!
I sure do love these people.
Jillian tried something new this year for her boy’s birthday. It was a family or group or company that puts on warrior parties. They are called Battle Birthdays.
They supply all the foam “swords” and shields and whatever else is needed for a bunch of battle games.
Now, you know perfectly well that all the people with any smarts about them stayed perfectly “put” undercover in the pavilion. No swinging swords and crazed warriors running around us.
Nope.
I will say though that it was fun to see all the enthusiastic engagement from the ummmmm….
grown men.Â
Apparently, this was their kind of kids party!
In fact, I almost lost track of the kids completely because it was so much fun watching the big guys.
I think we need to find out if these guys do more than just children’s parties. If they do…we should definitely book them a few more times…
if you get my drift.
Check out this adorable cake that Jillian made with the little sour patch warriors on the top!! She is soooo good at making whatever cake the kids want. It’s amazing.
Happy Birthday boy!
We sure love you.
Grammy
There seems to be a very good reason to have little folks in your work force. Namely when they can fit in the tight spot that you can’t.
Plus, Linky is having the time of his life.
And he’s doing it for free.
Win. Win. Win.
Heh, heh.
Oh, yeaaaah–I’m pretty proud of these kids! They all entered the ESports competition for Strawberry Days in Pleasant Grove. Such brave souls. I was way too chicken–but I did come to watch.
Jillian, Lyndi and Rhen all entered the Dr. Mario tournament.
They played through the rounds and got pretty far. At one point there were people standing outside the school windows so that they could see the screens!
Some guy came over by me and started complaining about all the people that had beat him. I sheepishly said, “Yeah, that’s my daughter,” and “That’s my other daughter,” and “That’s my son.” All he said in return was, “Wow.”
I swear, I tried to keep a straight face. We will not discuss how well it worked.
Our boy entered the Smash Bros tournament because it’s his particular specialty. Watch out everybody else!
Rhen and this fellow got to the finals…
but of course…
there can be only one winner!!
No surprise to me who that was!
Congratulations Rhen!!!
But wait!! Right after that–we had another winner in the Smash Bros category!! Congratulations boy!!
I taught them everything they know.
BAHAHAHAhahahahaha!
What a fun time.
Hanging out with winners!
Heh, heh.
